IRAQ AT THE BOILING POINT[excerpts]The Iraqi revolt against occupation is
spreading in qualitative developments. The Pentagon is reacting with a murderous iron fist that is making the popular Iraqi
position increasingly clear to the world: that the occupation forces are indeed an enemy - not liberators.

In
the last 72 hours [4/7/04], as the colonial force attempts to hold the country in a tight grip, the number of casualties has
mounted, as Iraqi cities are besieged and bombed by missiles and tanks. Street fighting is raging throughout the country.

In a classic demonstration of colonial practices, the U.S. is conducting a widespread reign
of terror. . . . in Ramadi, Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Sadr, Adamiya, Kufa, Kut, Karabla, Amarah, Kirkuk,
Mosul, Nasiriyah, Shula, and other cities and towns. The city of Fallujah has been exceptionally targeted. This is the same
city where in the first weeks of the occupation U.S. troops took over a local school and killed 15
residents who were protesting the takeover of the facility.

. . . the people of the United States
have learned within the span of only one year that the war against Iraq is not only based on outright
fabrications and lies. . . .[but also],/o/ver the past three days, the previously simmering rejection of foreign
occupation has evolved into a near full-scale revolt that has spread to many cities in the south of Iraq. All while the U.S. has implemented collective punishment against the people of Fallujah and other cities in
the central part of the country.